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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Kemble"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Kemble")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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3389 results for: Keyword - Kemble
We found 4727 matches on Roles/Actors, 965 matches on Performance Comments, 485 matches on Event Comments, 458 matches on Author, and 5 matches on Performance Title.

3251
02 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The 4th Night (see 25 Nov.). [The playbill retains Mrs Baddeley, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Farren's. After 1 Dec. Mrs Baddeley never acted again in London.] Receipts: #84 3s. (61.5.0; 22.7.6; 0.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

3252
08 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Hedges, who is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill, was from the hay.] Receipts: #115 8s. (86.1; 27.17; 1.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: End IV: The Irish Fair, as17800930

3253
12 December 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [Mrs Mahon is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #210 13s. (208.8.6; 2.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with: a Dance of Sailors-

3254
31 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Roope is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #164 6s. (162/5; 2/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17810928; End of Act I of afterpiece the original Crutch Dance (performers not listed; it was included in all subsequent performances)

3255
06 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill. The playbill retains Henderson, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Wroughton's.]. Account-Book, 19 Nov.: Paid Holcroft in full for his [two] Benefit Nights for Duplicity #100. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

3256
08 December 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Mrs Page to Mrs Wilson, and Mrs Ford to Miss Younge, but on the Kemble playbill both these names are deleted. Mrs Whitfield's name is written above Mrs Wilson's, but the name of Miss Younge's substitute has been cut by the binder; she was almost certainly Mrs Mattocks (see 25 Jan. 1782).] Receipts: #155 1s. (149/18; 5/3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: As17811101

3257
01 January 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Miss Cleland is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #190 3s. (185/15; 4/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

3258
21 January 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Barnes is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill] Receipts: #261 9s. (255/0; 6/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

3259
11 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces the 9th night of Variety (see 12 Apr.), but the Kemble playbill deletes it. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #114 17s. 6d. (74/15/0; 39/17/6; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

3260
14 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 15 Mar. 1779]. [Trew is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Afterpiece in place of The Positive Man, announced on playbill of 12 Mar.] Paid one-half years Land Tax for the Theatre #61 5s. Receipts: #167 4s. (161/14; 5/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

3261
19 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Mainpiece: Written by Congreve; and now carefully revised and corrected, by expunging the exceptionable passages. [The playbill assigns Lord Touchwood to Clarke, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted; the substitute name has been cut by the binder.] Afterpiece: Contracted into 3 acts. With a Grand Dance, and a Reinforcement of Bayes's Troops [for which, and for a list of the other parts, see DL, 13 Dec. 1777. In the Dancing Banti is announced as making his 5th appearance (see 25 Feb., 5 Mar.)]. Public Advertiser, 2 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, Buckingham-street, York Buildings. Receipts: #238 9s. 6d. (144/9/6; tickets: 94/0/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17811219

3262
27 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Duprez, Pemberton, Collins, Newton, Lyon, J. Shade, Gardner, Devoto will be taken. [Miss Blower is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #225 (48/17; 17/4; 0/5; tickets: 158/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece Hornpipe, as17820314End of Act III The Devonshire Minuet, as17810915, but added: Duprez

Song: In Act v of mainpiece song, as17820411

3263
08 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Williames & Harwood, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood, Blackmoor Street, Clare-market [others not listed]. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [The playbill assigns the song in Act II to Williames, but a MS annotation on the Kemble playbill substitutes Du-Bellamy.] Receipts: #252 19s. (66/15; 34/7; 0/11; tickets: 151/6) (charge: #106 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpicce a Minuet and Gavot by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Du-Bellamy; End of Act III The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms, as17820420

3264
16 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Nash, Helme, Daglish, Dale, Brigg, Barthrope, Master Pulley, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Byrne will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Du-Bellamy as Lord Aimworth and Williames as Mervin, but on the Kemble playbill their names are deleted and MS annotations substitute Williames and Fawcett. This was Mrs Cargill's last appearance in London. Subsequently she acted in India.] Receipts: #231 17s. 6d. (32/8/0; 22/9/6; 0/15/0; tickets: 176/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314nd of mainpiece a Minuet by Brigg and A Young Lady (his Scholar [unidentified]); End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

3265
21 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon, L'Estrange, Thompson & Guard. Tickets for a Comedy, and The School for Wives will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Fearon as Justice Shallow, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Waldron.] Receipts: #251 2s. 6d. (75/6/6; tickets: 175/16/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: As17820503

3266
19 September 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Young Bevil to Smith, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Brereton's.] Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (106/19/0; 34/6/6; 0/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17820917

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Monologue: 1782 09 19 As 17 Sept

3267
26 September 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lady Sneerwell to Miss Sherry, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Whitfield. Miss Sherry was ill; she died early in October.] "Sheridan has also despised the faults of another school, trap claps. Not a word in The School for Scandal is to be found in praise of Laws, Jack Tars, Innocence, an Englishman's castellum, or Liberty" (Reynolds, II, 227). Receipts: #193 13s. 6d. (155/11/0; 37/12/6; 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Related Works
Related Work: The School for Scandal Scandaliz'd Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820921

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song by Williames. [This was sung, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 10 Dec]

3268
03 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Chapman and Barrymore are identified by MS annotations on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #82 19s. (62/12; 20/2; 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Country Dance incident to the Piece; End of Act II the Devonshire Minuet by the Miss Stageldoirs

3269
18 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Miss Wewitzer is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #177 12s. 6d. (176/4/0; 1/8/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

3270
22 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Mrs Peachum to Mrs Webb, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Davenett's.] Receipts: #157 19s. 6d. (156/10/6; 1/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Miss Matthews

3271
23 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Evants is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #172 19s. (170/0; 2/19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Brett

3272
28 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Aickin as Dionysius, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted. Of the name substituted in MS all but the 1st two letters have been cut by the binder. For Mahon as Dionysius see 12 Feb. 1778.] Receipts: #212 5s. (208/16; 3/9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

3273
30 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns the Herald to Wright, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes R. Palmer.] Receipts: #234 1s. (213/1/0; 20/8/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17821005

3274
30 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Brett as Carlos, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Kennedy.] Receipts: #133 16s. 6d. (132/5/0; 1/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: St

3275
06 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Miss Collett, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Miss Simson.] "Since the first performance, the scene of the Physicians has been judiciously struck out [of afterpiece]" {Universal Magazine, Nov. 1782, p. 254.) Paid Pemberton for copying parts #2. 3s. 6d. Receipts: #232 0s. 6d. (207/17/0; 23/12/0; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Song: Epithalamium as17821010, but performers not listed